A provocative pop-up greets visitors to a small Texas law firm's website: "Has your child been harmed by their school-issued laptop or tablet?" it asks. "Parents assume that Chromebooks and iPads issued by their kids' schools are safe, but they are not."
Hundreds of parents have responded to the intake form, according to Julie Liddell, one half of the husband-wife duo behind the Austin-based plaintiffs' law firm, the EdTech Law Center. The lawyers are working to channel data privacy and mental-health concerns about education technology—which has become ubiquitous in U.S. classrooms—into lawsuits.
